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Coffee House Shots

Was that Starmer's best PMQ's so far?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Politics, Government, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Katy Balls and James Forsyth dissect the back and forth from today's session in the House of Commons. Does Boris really think he can sell his 'I fired Matt Hancock' story? 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:26.4

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots as Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie

0:35.3

Balls and I'm joined by James Forsyth. James, I've had Prime Minister's

0:39.2

questions today and Kirstama articulated a charge that has been growing in recent weeks when it

0:45.4

comes to the government. Talk us for it. I thought this is actually Kirstama's best PMQ since

0:50.2

becoming Labour leader. She had a potent charge, which is that it's one rule for them and another rule for the

0:56.2

rest of us, and he could have wove the Matt Hancock story into that.

1:01.3

And I also thought it was effective on a technical level.

1:04.0

I think one of the things that Kiyos often lacks at PMQs is a sense of theatre and a bit

1:07.8

of swagger.

1:08.9

And I think what you saw today was he had a bit of theatre,

1:12.5

a bit of swagger in the first few questions.

1:16.3

You know, he nailed the point that you wrote about on Coffee House on Monday,

1:20.0

which is, you know, Boris Johnson now wants to suggest that Matt Hancock was sacked when he clearly wasn't exactly, clearly resigned.

1:22.6

And at that time, number 10, I'm very keen to say that the resignation was Matt Hancock's own decision.

1:31.0

And then I thought what he did effectively was to change pace.

1:37.0

So Boris Johnson got into classic Boris Johnson defensive PMQ's mode, you know, vaccine rollout.

1:39.7

You couldn't sack Angela Rainer, this is Westminster bubble.

1:53.6

And then he said, right, let's talk about the case of this 20-year-old man who died in hospital with leukemia, who could barely see his family as he died, died the day before those photos of Matt Hancock and his aide, breaching social distancing, to put it mildly.

1:57.2

And I think that that was an effective technique. I thought the change of pace that you don't normally see from Keir-Stama.

2:01.1

I think the irony of it, or is that was Keir-Dama's most effective being accused performance.

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